Beyond Morals

into Divine Light

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Carl H. Stevens Jr. is pastor of Greater Grace

Church located in Baltimore, Maryland. Pastor

Stevens is also chancellor of Maryland Bible

College & Seminary and host of the international

Christian radio program “The Grace Hour.” This

booklet was created from messages preached by

Pastor Stevens.

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the King James Version. Italics for emphasis are ours.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

THE SUFFICIENCY OF GRACE

Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

CONFRONTING THE DARKNESS

Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

LIVING BY LIGHT, NOT BY THE LETTER

Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

THE WORD GIVES LIGHT

Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

ORIENTATION TO LIFE

CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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INTRODUCTION

Any light detached from the eternal life of

God is, at best, moral light. The best moral light

can produce is moral integrity, which has not

gone through the Cross to be resurrected in eter-

nal life. This is evident in the problems that have

surfaced within the Church over the last ten

years. The public exposure of failure has re-

vealed the inability of Christians to handle such

problems.

Many Christians have a superficial under-

standing of forgiveness, but never reflect the di-

vine light of God’s nature that forgives and

forgets. Meanwhile, hundreds of evangelical

pastors continue to run each other down.

They’re born again. They study the Scriptures

and preach the Gospel, but they have never un-

derstood what it means to go beyond morals

into divine light.

God’s nature reflects Divine light, but moral

light is merely a reflection of the best human

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nature has to offer—created light, which has its

beginning in human integrity. On the other

hand, divine light expresses the totality of God’s

grace. It radiates God’s nature and it is the only

means by which Jesus Christ’s grace can trans-

form a human soul. God’s light is uncreated—it

has no beginning. It’s source is the Creator who

is “from everlasting to everlasting” (Psalm 90:2),

and it is the only light that can drive away the

darkness from our lives.

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Chapter One

THE SUFFICIENCY OF GRACE

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient

for thee: for my strength is made perfect in

weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather

glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ

may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in

infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in per-

secutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for

when I am weak, then am I strong” (2 Corinthi-

ans 12:9-10).

“This then is the message which we have

heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is

light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).

We can only experience the sufficiency of

God’s grace through the transformation of our

minds—regardless of how much we understand

the doctrine of grace. Often, we allow messages

from the Word of God to stimulate our intellect,

but fail to allow uncreated light to transform our

human nature. Created light can never trans-

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form human nature. We may memorize Scrip-

tures and go to five Bible studies a week only to

be stimulated but never transformed. Scripture

that is detached from Jesus Christ’s eternal life

will never produce divine light in the soul; it is

merely knowledge.

God declared, in 2 Corinthians 12:9, “My

strength is made perfect in weakness.” To the

natural mind, this may not seem to make sense.

Yet, the Spirit-filled believer understands that

grace and strength are made perfect in our weak-

ness because in our weakness, we depend upon

the Lord. My weakness cannot hinder His im-

mutable grace and strength, but it will reveal the

nature of His divine light in me.

God’s grace is sufficient to ward off danger

and to bring in contentment, confidence, and

overwhelming satisfaction. Satan cannot stand

to hear grace expressed, let alone see it revealed

in someone’s life.

“In weakness” is asthenia, a feminine noun in

the dative case of advantage. This word refers to

incapacity, poverty, failure, inability, and defi-

ciency. It is used to describe someone who is

physically weak or someone who lacks under-

standing. Yet, God’s strength is made perfect in

human weakness, because, in Christ is life, and

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His life is the light of men; In God’s light, there

is no darkness—at all.

When I receive His light, there is no dark-

ness to cause emotional problems. There is no

darkness to make me react when I’m the inno-

cent party in a difficult marriage. There is no

fear, no insecurity, no apprehension, and no anx-

iety. God’s strength is made perfect and His

grace is sufficient. It goes beyond my sin, it

wards off danger, bringing in light that reaches

far beyond any of my problems, love that goes

beyond knowledge, mercy that rejoices against

judgment, and peace that passes understanding.

From Everlasting to Everlasting

“Before the mountains were brought forth,

or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the

world, even from everlasting to everlasting,

thou art God” (Psalm 90:2). God has eternal,

“uncreated” life in Himself (John 5:26); there-

fore, He has no beginning.

Many Christians have become stabilized by

moral light. They use moral integrity as a stan-

dard of righteousness to evaluate themselves,

their relationships, their churches, and their fam-

ilies. They remain limited by their natural

capacity to “do good.” For their good works to

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be acceptable before God, however, they must

go through Calvary to have the nature of their

morality transformed.

Morality is vital to our society. It preserves

national identity and protects individual free-

dom, personal rights, and property. But when

moral light is allowed to replace divine light, it

becomes a hindrance to spiritual transformation.

Christians must be challenged to live in spir-

itual light—going beyond inspiring messages,

stimulating thoughts, and scriptural beatitudes.

When a crisis arises, too many people are quick

to make evaluations through moral light, while

they call it integrity. Weeks later, they are still

discussing the situation because they were not

transformed by God’s viewpoint, God’s mind,

and God’s will.

Unless we live in God’s uncreated light,

which issues from His uncreated life, it is im-

possible for us to experience His unconditional

love. Uncreated light reveals that God, who has

no beginning and no ending, saw us as spotless

and blameless before the foundation of the

world.

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Chapter Two

CONFRONTING THE DARKNESS

“For thou hast delivered my soul from

death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling,

that I may walk before God in the land of the

living?” (Psalm 56:13).

“For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my

God will enlighten my darkness” (Psalm 18:28).

“When his candle shined upon my head,

and…by his light I walked through darkness”

(Job 29:3).

By God’s light, we walk through depression,

insecurity, fear, guilt, and condemnation. God’s

uncreated life helps me walk through every mo-

ment that I am challenged by the reflection of

my old sin nature.

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is trans-

formed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no

great thing if his ministers also be transformed

as the ministers of righteousness; whose end

shall be according to their works” (2 Corinthians

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11:14-15).

As the 20th century draws to a close, Satan

is hard at work in the art of deception. He uses

demonic smoke screens to obscure and even

blind the minds of many believers so they will

live in constant defeat. Satan’s darkness does not

appear as darkness. It is another form of spiritual

light that is not from God—an energy that

works through the old sin nature. People in

churches that promote this satanic light live in

distortion and ignorance of divine light; there-

fore, they cannot be quickened and renewed ac-

cording to the Word of God.

A woman testified that she had lived with

the knowledge of how to be delivered for nearly

fifteen years, but had never experienced deliver-

ance. Because she suffered from emotional prob-

lems, she went to a Christian psychologist who

diagnosed her with “situational anxiety.” Now,

even though her problem had a name, she still

could not find deliverance. She felt defeated in

everything she tried to do. Then one day, while

listening to our radio broadcast, she received

victory.

“I heard a statement about the danger of

putting precedence on moral light over spiritual

light, and the whole thing just broke,” she said.

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“For fifteen years, I had been interpreting moral

light as spiritual light, and I lived in total defeat.

There was so much guilt and condemnation. But

now, hallelujah, I have never felt so free in all

my life! I am a transformed woman.”

Discerning the Devil’s Light

No one can discern Satan’s work as an angel

of light without the light of God’s Word and the

Holy Spirit. Many Christians continually fail in

the details of life and never define their problem;

they’re being outmatched by the angel of light.

Peter was no match for the angel of light

when he tried to talk Jesus out of going to the

cross. Jesus rebuked Peter, saying, “Get thee

behind me, Satan.” He knew the source of Peter’s

counsel and would not entertain it.

Just like Peter, we are no match for the angel

of light. We try to save ourselves and others

from suffering and from the Cross. Through acts

of self-preservation, we manipulate and scheme,

determined to rationalize our way through these

things with moral light.

The Confounded Accuser

Satan despises the fact that Jesus will not lis-

ten to one accusation against the Christian. In

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Zechariah 3:1-5, Satan had the goods on Joshua

the high priest, who was clothed with the dirty,

filthy garments of sin. As the devil brought the

evidence of Joshua’s sins before the throne, the

Lord rebuked the accuser and kicked him out.

The Lord wouldn’t listen to a single word

against Joshua.

I don’t read anything about Joshua repent-

ing before he received his new garments. Oh,

how that must upset some right-wing funda-

mentalists who live in moral light! God covered

Joshua with uncreated light. He saw the high

priest as faultless. Spiritual light took supremacy

over moral light.

God is not giving us a license to sin, but He

is showing us how to be rightly related to Him

in divine light. With this kind of provision avail-

able, only a fool would want to live in sin.

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Chapter Three

LIVING BY LIGHT,

NOT BY THE LETTER

“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to

think any thing as of ourselves; but our suffi-

ciency is of God; Who also hath made us able

ministers of the new testament; not of the letter,

but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the

spirit giveth life” (2 Corinthians 3:5-6).

Among all the trees in the garden of Eden,

God created two distinct trees: the Tree of Life,

reflecting divine light, and the Tree of Knowl-

edge of Good and Evil, reflecting moral light.

The Tree of Knowledge represented divine

information about good and evil. God never in-

tended for us to eat from this tree—not even the

“good” part—because He knew we would use

it to measure and compare ourselves with one

another.

The good side of the Tree of Knowledge rep-

resents scriptural knowledge expressed in the

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letter that kills. The first thing the letter pro-

duces is pride, a satanic spirit that causes a per-

son to exalt himself above others.

The second thing the letter without the Spirit

produces in a person is human good—the

demonstration of moral light (or moral integrity).

The person living in moral light is self-righteous,

always conscious of how he—and others—are

doing, in relation to the letter of the law. He goes

about establishing his own righteousness be-

cause he is ignorant of divine righteousness (Ro-

mans 10:3).

Who did this? Who didn’t do that? Who

failed? These are questions asked by people who

live in moral light at the Tree of Knowledge. In

its production of relevant righteousness, moral

light always measures human personalities,

attributes, and works. Detached from God’s un-

created light, it repudiates unconditional love.

Putting Away the Past

Someone once said, “My problem is that my

past is between me and God.” Don’t get God

into it. He can’t remember your past. The prob-

lem of your past is between you and yourself.

When a person goes to a social worker or a

counselor and begins to relate to the past, he’s

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dealing with something that God refuses to get

involved with. He is living in moral light, which

had its origin in the Fall of Adam and is con-

stantly revived through various complexes in the

soul, and through the reflection of the memory.

A Christian who is confessed up-to-date, re-

flecting God’s nature in uncreated light, has no

consciousness of sin (Hebrews 10:2). Without the

consciousness of sin, there can be no condemna-

tion (Romans 8:1). And without condemnation,

there can be no guilt, because the conscience has

been purged by the blood of Jesus Christ

through the eternal Spirit (Hebrews 9:14). Ab-

sent from guilt, the conscience is free to function

in the reflection of God’s nature instead of being

occupied with human nature.

Divine light cannot remember one sin I’ve

committed, once I have repented, because the

power of eternal life produces uncreated light

and reveals unconditional love. God’s uncondi-

tional love goes beyond knowledge, revealing

mercy that rejoices against judgment and peace

that passes understanding. When I accept

Christ’s Finished Work as a recipient of God’s

grace, God establishes me in a new position

with Jesus. In this position, I am a new creation

in Christ, complete in Him and seated in heav-

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enly places with my past gone forever.

If a Christian has divine light illuminating

his capacity for human life, he will never feel

guilty. Even something that happened ten min-

utes ago is gone from God’s sight the moment I

rebound. It’s forgiven and forgotten.

I must agree with God about my sin—He’s

cast it behind His back, out of His sight forever

(Isaiah 38:17). In the eternal “is,” God sees me in

the light of His uncreated life, blameless before

Him in love. Now, I can’t remember the failures

of yesterday or last week. There is nothing left

to be counseled for. The only way I can recall my

past is through the reflection of my human na-

ture—detached from God’s divine nature—

under the dominion of moral light.

Living as New Creatures

Many Christians refuse to live in what God

says they are—new creatures. 2 Corinthians

5:17 doesn’t say, “…old things will some day pass

away, after I’ve been counseled about how bad

my mother and father were and about what my

uncle did to me secretly when I was nine years

old.” No. It says, “old things are passed away”—

now.

Ungodly counsel will never deliver you. A

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counselor can only help you understand the cir-

cumstances you’re living in. Discovering all

those things may make you feel good, but it will

not make you a new creature in your experience.

You will still be an old dishrag, going through

the same old problems with the same old Adam

controlling you. You will end up playing the

same old games, feeling guilty in your moral

light and moral integrity as you continue living

in the effects of things that you have already

confessed. God took care of those things.

Though you’re free, you still refuse to accept

your freedom. This, dear friends, is unbelief.

“If any man be in Christ, he is a new crea-

ture.” This may sound like elementary preach-

ing to some, but not one in 15,000 Christians

experience this reality twenty-four hours a day.

Old things are passed away. They are gone;

they’re dead and buried, removed from God’s

omniscience and omnipresence. Omnipotence—

God’s ‘all power’—overruled His knowledge of

sin, removing the very thought of it. The ‘all

power’ of God crucified our sins in the flesh of

Jesus Christ, removed every sin we would ever

commit, and buried them forever.

We are hid with Christ in God. We are seated

above with Him. Every moment, everything

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about us is brand new. When we fail, we in-

stantly confess our sin and accept absolute for-

giveness. God immediately forgets it. As we

agree with Him, we can’t remember it either, be-

cause uncreated life, uncreated light, and un-

conditional love indwell us.

Wouldn’t it be better to live this way, rather

than to go on for years, striving in partial vic-

tory?

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Chapter Four

THE WORD GIVES LIGHT

“The entrance of thy words giveth light; it

giveth understanding unto the simple” (Psalm

119:130).

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore

thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full

of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body

shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light

that is in thee be darkness, how great is that

darkness!” (Matthew 6:22-23).

Through God’s uncreated light, His grace

shines in my heart. I am able to understand God

in me and experience Christ’s words. But if my

eye isn’t single, then my whole body will be

filled with darkness—even if I’m a pastor. My

eye must receive only God’s light. Any other

light is darkness and “how great is that dark-

ness!” It may produce morality, but not spiritu-

ality. Many people who are morally good are

spiritually carnal. All of their righteousnesses

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are as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6), but no one ever

discovers it. They go to church and live their

lives thinking they are really “somebody” be-

cause of the things that they don’t do.

It’s very easy for a moral person to use

Scriptures to argue about how right he is and

how wrong everyone else is. But he’s talking out

of a light that’s turned into darkness—detached

from grace, love, mercy, and forgiveness. If I

refuse to extend the grace I have received to

others, then I am not a good steward of that

grace and I’m living in darkness. I must allow

mercy to rejoice against judgment. If I know

anyone after the flesh, then I am living in the

pride of life. This stimulates the lust of my eyes,

where demon influence persuades me to live in

the lust of my flesh in an educated, religious,

evangelized Adam.

Can you remember what someone has done

to you in the past week? If you can, then you’re

living in darkness, just as the pagans and the

heathen do. It’s not Finished Work. It’s not

grace. It’s not mercy. It’s not love. And it’s not

divine light.

Jesus Christ fulfilled the law (Matthew 5:17);

He is the end of the law to everyone who be-

lieves (Romans 10:4). Therefore, I am no longer

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obligated to live under a moral law. I come

under a higher law—the law of righteousness,

which has been fulfilled in me (Romans 8:4). Be-

cause Christ paid for my sins, sin is no longer an

issue. Though I still have an old sin nature, I can

accept the law of perfect righteousness. Then,

when I experience fellowship with God through

the entrance of His Word, the Word becomes a

light unto my path and lamp unto my feet.

Now, by light, I can walk through darkness, be-

cause the ‘letter’ is not detached from God’s

light in me.

From Conviction to Conversion

When I live in brokenness and humility, I

give Jesus Christ an opportunity to begin an

eternal work in me through uncreated life. God

always brings in tremendous conviction before

there’s a transforming conversion.

Job displayed striking maturity and integrity

in his first two trials, but in his third trial, he was

overwhelmed by his three self-righteous friends.

When he reacted, Job was righteous according

to the ‘letter,’ but detached from God’s life. At

the good side of the Tree of Knowledge he be-

came self-conscious of his innocence. But one

day, Job came to the light and said, “I abhor my-

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self, and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:6). He

realized that God in him was light.

Isaiah had been a preacher for fifty-two

years, but he never understood spiritual light

until God gave him a vision of Jesus Christ high

and lifted up, on the throne (Isaiah 6:1). The

seraphim were singing, “Holy, holy, holy, is the

LORD of hosts” (Isaiah 6:3). Then, in the light of

conviction, Isaiah said, “Woe is me! for I am un-

done; because I am man of unclean lips” (Isaiah

6:5). He wept. He had been morally good, prac-

ticing patriotism for 52 years. But God’s light

didn’t leave Isaiah there—condemned, guilty,

and unqualified because of his past. No, Isaiah’s

sin was purged away.

“Then flew one of the seraphims unto me,

having a live coal in his hand, which he had

taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he

laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath

touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken

away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice

of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who

will go for us? Then said [Isaiah], Here am I;

send me” (Isaiah 6:6-8).

Without any reservations or any probation-

ary period, the Lord commissioned Isaiah. It was

a transforming experience with uncreated light,

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a light that brings in God’s life so God’s love can

be experienced. When I receive light from God, I

never judge or compare myself with others, be-

cause divine light humbles me before God. Then

I instantly become a candidate to do His work.

When we draw near to the light, we, too, can

see Jesus Christ high and lifted up. We see His

perfect holiness and righteousness. At first, we

may be conscious of our sinfulness and confess,

as Habakkuk did, “my belly trembled; my lips

quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my

bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest

in the day of trouble” (Habakkuk 3:16).

But the next three verses reveal Habakkuk’s

faith in the uncreated light of God:

“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, nei-

ther shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the

olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat;

the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there

shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in

the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make

my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to

walk upon mine high places” (Habakkuk 3:17-19).

After witnessing a miracle catch of fish in

Luke 5:6, Peter fell down in awe at Jesus’ feet. In

the presence of the “light of the world” and the

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Holy Spirit’s conviction, Peter said to Jesus,

“Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord”

(Luke 5:8). After Peter denied Christ, in Matthew

26:69-75, Jesus recommissioned him to preach

the Word, never once making an issue of Peter’s

sin. With Jesus, love was the issue, because un-

created light always ushers in God’s uncondi-

tional love. It wasn’t what Peter had done, but

what he had failed to receive—unconditional

love.

Paul cried out, in Romans 7:24, “O wretched

man that I am!” He had lived according to the

law in moral light after he was saved, only to

come to the conclusion that he was wretched.

But later, when Paul’s heart was rooted in divine

light, he had a revelation of truth and pro-

claimed, “No condemnation” (Romans 8:1).

The great 18th century preacher Jonathan

Edwards cried out to God often in the last two

years of his life, “I see my sin when I preach and

even when I pray.” But rather than live in defeat,

he drew near the light and constantly received

God’s uncreated life.

Hudson Taylor said that “Even when I do

my best, I’m just living in refined sin.” Then, he

proclaimed, “Thank God for the grace that

doesn’t remember!”

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These great men of God experienced awe-

some conviction as they drew closer to the light.

But they also experienced the tremendous work

of God’s mercy and grace. The Spirit liberated

their souls and they realized that God’s grace is

sufficient in every detail.

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Chapter Five

ORIENTATION TO LIFE

God will not measure us by anything but

His own gift, His own mercy, and His own

grace. He will not deal with anything according

to moral light. We are measured only according

to how we respond to His life and light.

When knowledge possesses us without God’s

light, we end up living in the Christian paradise

of salvation without the grace of God trans-

forming our minds. But, when Jesus Christ pos-

sesses us and takes over our hearts, then we

learn proper orientation to life.

Jesus wants to teach each of us to orient to

His life. God sees us in His Son, who is the Light

of the world. “Bless the LORD, O my soul. O

LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art

clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest

thyself with light as with a garment: who

stretchest out the heavens like a curtain” (Psalm

104:1-2). God sends forth His light and His truth

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to lead us (Psalm 43:3). Ecclesiastes 11:7 says,

“Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it

is for the eyes to behold.”

Our eyes must behold His light. Many

Christians try to “borrow” light and life through

the influence of people they are attracted to. But

it doesn’t work that way. If you need exercise,

you don’t send someone to the gym in your

place and expect to receive the benefits of a

workout. Likewise, if you want to benefit from

God’s life, you have to draw near to His light,

personally.

Truth can’t be borrowed. We must buy it

through the Cross, through faith, and through

submission to Jesus Christ’s words by grace

through faith (Proverbs 23:23). His strength will

meet you in your weakness where God reveals

His quality of light, His energy of life, and His

nature of love.

Stay at the Tree of Life

Even in the midst of our weakness, we can

live in God’s presence without the conscious-

ness of sin. His light sets us free. We have been

made clean through the Word of God and deliv-

ered into the Kingdom of His dear Son. We now

have God’s power, nature, and character work-

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ing inside of us.

Never allow yourself to become detached

from the God who is in you. Stay at the Tree of

Life; don’t go back to the Tree of Knowledge.

Forget information that doesn’t have Finished

Work life. Don’t discuss knowledge that is de-

tached from Finished Work grace. Problems

should always be met with Finished Work

power. Whatever you express, let it be totally re-

leased in Jesus Christ’s Spirit and the inner

working of His grace.

There’s no need for a believer to feel inferior

or insecure. Human support programs will

never meet our needs. As the living God reveals

His light in you, any weakness or frailty can be

overcome. In the presence of His light and love,

darkness cannot hinder you at all.

When the sun comes up in the morning, it

doesn’t create anything new. It simply reveals

what was always there during the night. When

God’s light shines into circumstances and trials,

we think something new is being revealed, but

the light is just revealing what was already there

in our lives. The troubled marriage, the friend-

ship that’s dissolving, the problems in church—

none of these things are almighty. God is

Almighty, and He will not spare the existence of

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any hint of darkness, even that which clothes it-

self in moral light.

“If God is all-powerful, then why am I feel-

ing so bad?” you may be tempted to ask. The an-

swer is that you aren’t allowing the light of

God’s power to free you from your darkness.

You prohibit His light from doing its work

through self-occupation at the Tree of Knowl-

edge that draws you away from the Tree of Life.

The Word of God had an entrance in your

soul. You have received His light and His love.

Let them flow richly, and don’t allow circum-

stances or people to alter the single eye of life

that is in you.

The more we receive life, power, and peace

through divine light, the more God’s strength is

being made perfect in us. As we grow in godli-

ness, we can have fun reflecting His divine na-

ture. Every trial gives us an opportunity to

reflect Him. In our weakest state, we find His

strength, for only then do we allow divine light

to truly reveal God’s character and nature in our

lives.

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CONCLUSION

Some people will refuse to receive this mes-

sage, because it removes the option of worldly

counsel, it exposes adamic support systems, and

challenges people to get into the Book and de-

pend upon God.

All power in heaven and in earth belongs to

Jesus Christ. He’s living in us, so we don’t need

demoralized humanists telling us how to get rid

of guilt, insecurity, and fear. God’s almighty

power is inside of us. His wisdom is from above,

producing peace, gentleness, meekness, and

purity in us. We don’t need human help to find

victory. We are overcomers through Christ who

strengthens us. Praise Him, for His grace is all-

sufficient.

Christ is the end of the law, and we are

under the government of grace (Romans 6:14).

We are hid with Christ in God, so the wicked

one cannot touch us (1 John 5:18). We are seated

above principalities, powers, and demons (Eph-

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esians 2:6), so we can enjoy the blessings of eter-

nal life that produce divine light, enabling us to

live in His love at all times.

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